Issue: 800
Jan 09, 2020
Color of Law
It is Time for Facebook to Stop Coddling the Far Right
Executive Editor
The powerful social media platform is willingly enabling hate groups, white nationalists and far-right extremists.
The Daily Wire, a far-right news and opinion site, is using Facebook to spread disinformation ahead of the 2020 US presidential election, and the social media…
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Commentary
Loving a Church That Doesn’t Love You
Editorial Board
The schism in the UMC, sadly, mirrors today’s ongoing battle among religious conservatives. A movement for some time now has been afoot in state legislatures across the country to disenfranchise LGBTQ Americans.
Before the United Methodist Church (UMC) announced a proposal to split the denomination over “fundamental differences” regarding theological beliefs on LGBTQ clergy and same-sex marriage, that…
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Commentary
Will Money Rule In This Presidential Race?
Editorial Board
Democrats must place significant effort on getting out the vote in November (and during the primaries), and new voters and especially communities of color, must be targeted.
Democrats started this Presidential campaign season with more than 20 candidates. Eventually, it dropped to about a dozen, with, so far, only five of those "qualified"…
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Commentary
Toni Morrison: Writing the Memory of Her story, America’s Story of Struggle
Editorial Board
What is not recognized in American society or in our educational institutions is just how few white professors, with PhD.’s, holding tenured positions are familiar with narratives written by the majority of the world’s humanity.
...[T]hat the writer has no more right than anyone else not to take a stand against the inhumanity of the world today… Talent and genius cannot…
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Commentary
A Thug in the White House – Solidarity America
Columnist
Trump has tried his best to emulate the world's strong men, but there remain some laws in the U.S. that prevent his acting on his impulses, although he has managed to turn the American electorate, at least a large part of it, into a bobble-headed crowd that takes his word as truth and law.
Every once in a while, it would be good for the American people to hear and see what the rest of the world thinks of the…
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Sharp n’ Blunt
When Trump Snaps, Only the United Nations Can Save Black America
Columnist
Black America “sleeps with one eye open,” we don’t know what’s next. This President may brand all Blacks as “home grown” terrorist or “Never Trumpers’ . . . as if it’s a felony to have smelled how very funky this escaped circus clown was from Jump Street.
Good Day United Nations Secretary General António Guterres, Just over half-a-century ago, the iron-jawed symbol of Black pride and defiance, Black Power icon Malcolm X was…
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Guest Commentary
The Ongoing Poisonous Reality of White Fragility
Guest Commentator
Keeping it real, the truth is that the majority of Whites who throw racist shade on critics of White racism do so from old fashioned racist rhetoric. The message is that people of color should keep their mouths shut, be humble and “know their place.” Do not offend our fragile sensibilities. Period!
On December 30, the ItsOkayToBeWhite hashtag was posted on Twitter. As can be imagined, it did not take long for controversy and intense debate to follow.…
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